There are very few people who realise what God would make of them if they abandoned themselves into His hands, and let themselves be formed by His grace.St Ignatius Loyola

Tuesday, September 10, 2002

You are entirely welcome to disagree with me about the justice or rightness of the coming war. But please don't cite Vatican Foreign Ministry staff as moral authority for your cause. See, French Cardinals who work there have a really good record on picking the right guys to back in the Middle East. Take a look at this photo, for instance.... The fellow in the robes on the left is that Vatican envoy to Israel. Now, maybe Arafat is a good guy and all, but is this really the right behavior for an envoy from a third party, while terrorists are holding hostages at the Church of the Holy Spulchre?? So, please don't tell me that now another French Cardinal--apparently unaware taht the UN decided in 1998 that force was justified--has any bearing on the rightness or wrongness of American foreign policy.